Re: Policy and conffile editing
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 02:44:03PM -0900, Britton wrote:
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>
> The 'edited by you or by a script line' which currently gets served up to
> users is apparently not quite in line with policy. It would probably be
> more appropriate to say somethine like 'The configuration file for this
> package has been modified since the package was installed' or something
> like that.
>
> I have over time observed a number of cases where I have to say Yes
> (install new version) for conf files I know I have never modified, either
> directly of with a helper configuration script, but I didn't report them
> as bugs because of the above message.
Maybe file a wishlist bug against dpkg?
Julian
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